video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

[Sean Kelly]

Don't have the HD set stretch the image. Just watch it in the original format. Personally, I just find that looking at an LCD display is easier on the eyes than a CRT. Being able to mount it on the wall to get it away from the kids is nice too. 

On Mar 31, 2012, at 2:37 AM, "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:jl6a6a$1gh$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 3/30/2012 11:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Adam D. Ruppe"<destructionator at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>>>> In my house's big room, I have a floor bed: a couple
>>>> blankets and pillows on the floor, next to my big tv.
>>>> (my "big tv" being a 20 year old 19" set! I'll use it till
>>>> it dies. Then duct tape it back together and get a few more
>>>> years out of it.)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Finally! Another person that's not jumping on board the "If flatpanel HD
>>> sets are so popular then I guess I have to go spring for one, too"
>>> bandwagon!
>> 
>> Dudes, get an HD TV. It really is transformative. And yes, it kills me 
>> that my expensive old large screen standard def TV is just a POS in 
>> comparison, even though it is in perfect working order.
>> 
>> I can't even stand to watch standard def anymore.
> 
> I've seen and used HD sets. Heck, my sister has one (a fancy new one - 1080p 
> of course) and I've watched stuff on it with her. BluRay, HDMI, all the 
> bells & whitles, etc. Yea, the HD looks nice, but ultimately I've never 
> gotten past the overall feeling of "Meh". YMMV, but it *honestly* just 
> doesn't do much for me. Certainly not enough to blow hundreds of dollars on 
> it.
> 
> And that's with HD content. A lot of my stuff is SD (and will never change 
> to HD - it's not as if my Wii or XBox1 games/hardware are suddenly going to 
> start outputting HD), and I've always found that SD content looks noticably 
> *worse* on an HD set than an SD set, no matter how fancy the upscale 
> filtering is. The upscaling/filtering artifacts are always painfully 
> noticable and it just looks like shit. But it looks perfectly fine on an SD 
> set. 'Course, the old HD CRTs would have been able to handle SD content 
> perfectly fine, but you can't get those anymore.
> 
> So blowing hundreds of dollars just so half my stuff looks *worse* and other 
> stuff looks (to me) only marginally better? Pass.
> 
> It's not like B&W -> Color. Just a higher rez. Meh, big deal. When it's 
> commonplace to have inexpensive HD *with* extended gamut (sp?) and quality 
> no-glasses/no-headaches 3D, and content to take advantage of all that (and 
> without getting dizzy from all the shaky-cam bullshit), then it'll probably 
> be enough for me to care. At one point I went from a 160x160 greyscale 
> Handspring Vizor (PalmOS) to a 320x320 full-color Palm Zire 71. *That* was a 
> significant difference. SDTV -> HDTV? Small potatoes, I just can't care.
> 
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